Re: sparse checkouts based on properties

On Nov 23, 2007 5:34 PM, Sylvain Pion <Sylvain.Pion@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been looking at the new --depth feature, whose title
> sounds exactly like something I would need.
> Unfortunately, I fear what I want to do is not supported.
> What I would need is something like:
>
> svn co ... --depth=property=somename
>
> The idea being that it should be possible to set a property
> "somename" on some files or directories, such that with the
> option above, they are not checked out.
>
> Would something like this sound reasonnably useful to be
> supported at some point?
>
> I would use something like this in order to have a "release mode"
> checkout, which eliminates some internal files/directories in my
> project.

I think it is generally accepted that svn 1.5 will contain low-level
depth features which will enable people to experiment (with 3rd-party
scripts, etc) with good UIs for higher-level features such as the one
you mention here; once we've had some time to design a solid
higher-level UI for this sorts of thing, we'll put it in 1.6 (or
later). You can be part of this design process!

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_davidglasser.net | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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